Paper bag



Feb. 5, 1924.` 1,482,783 D. F. BOUCHER v PAPER BAG Filed March '7. 1922 me/wma @wat wuc1--f Patented Feb. 5, i924.

@Ntra sraras testata DONAT F. BOUCHER, F NORTHBRXDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Application tiled March 7, 1.922. Serial No. 541,793

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DONAT F. BOUCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Northbridge, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Bags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bags, having more particular reference to paper bags such as vare used 4in shops of various kinds as containers for articles sold.

The invention has for an object the provision of a novel type of bag of this sort l@ which is arranged to facilitate the packaging of such articles.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will behadto the following description and accompanying drawings, and to .the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my improved bag, showing it opened out but unfilled.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view of the bag as lled to maximum capacity fand closed.

3@ Fig. 3 is aI fragmentary vertical sectional view of the bag as lled to less than maximum capacity, and with the closure elements arranged differently than in Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawings ythe body 8G 10 of the bag may be of usual construction and arranged in the usual manner for Hat folding. According to my present invention ll form integral with one wall of the bag, at the mouth thereof, a tab 15 of con siderable length and of substantially equal 450 width to the bag. The length of the tab 15 is preferably approximately double the front to rear dimension of the expanded bag and it is provided on its inner face with a glue coating 16 which extends only over the outer half thereof. According as may be desired, depending on whether the article placed in the bag fills the latter to maximum capacity or less, the tab 15 may be either glued to the front of the bag as shown in 5@ Fig. 2, or may be doubled upon itself and inserted into the top of the bag with the glued face turned upward, as shown in Fig. 3, the top edges of the bag being folded and glued to this face. The need of strings for tying `the bag is thus done away witl1.-

Having thus described my invention what l claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

En a packaged article, a container of dexible material having an integral tab formed on one side 'of the mouth thereof and of equal width thereto, said tab being of approximately double the front to rear dimansion of the container and being doubled upon itself within the mouth of the container the outwardly facing part of the tab having a coating of glue applied thereto, the lip on the opposite side of the mouth being glued down upon this outwardly facing part of the tab.

lin testimony whereof li have axed my signature.

DONA@ l?, BOUCHER. 

